Vigeo Group

Les Mercuriales, 40 Rue Jean Jaures, Bagnolet, 93 170 France

Contact: Bernard Dufour

Tel: +33 1 49 72 46 00
Fax: +33 1 49 72 46 10

Email: bernard.dufour@vigeogroup.com
Web: www.vigeo.com

Vigeo Group is the leading Corporate Social Responsibility Rating Agency in Europe and Japan. Created through a recent merger of Vigeo (France) and Stock at Stake (Belgium), the Vigeo Group is based in Paris, Brussels and Casablanca and employs 60 SRI / CSR experts, from 12 different nationalities.

The VIGEO Group produces in-depth research and ratings for listed corporations included in the DJ STOXX 600 index and for a number of listed corporations in Americas and Asia Pacific.

Our ratings reflect the degree to which such corporations take into account (relative to other companies in their respective industry sectors) the social, environmental and governance impacts they may have on stakeholders which in turn may impact the corporation itself. The ensemble of these ratings forms a database which is made available by the VIGEO Group to fund managers, institutional investors, NGOs and corporations.

The VIGEO Group investor-solicited ratings are sector benchmarks and are developed on the basis of publicly disclosed information as well as through direct dialogue and engagement with both corporations themselves and their stakeholders. The VIGEO Group does not use standard questionnaires.

The Vigeo Group will soon cover 1500 stocks:

• 800 European companies (95% capitalization of DJ Stoxx600 and SBF120),
• 400 North American companies,
• and 300 Asian-South Pacific companies.

To know more about the VIGEO Group, its SRI indices and its methodology, please visit www.vigeogroup.com.
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